Olga Magidenko

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 9 August 2009

Born

Born in 9 May 1954 in Moscow.

Education

Graduated from Moscow Conservatory as a pianist in 1977 (under Prof. L. Vlassenko) and in 1979 as a composer (under Prof. A. Khachaturian), in 1982 Aspirantur (all with a distinction).

Works

"The Golden Little Key", suite for piano opus 1 (1967)
Duration: 10 minutes.
Sonata for piano opus 2 (1968)
Duration: 9 minutes.
"Merry Fugettas" for piano opus 3 (1969)
Duration: 10 minutes.
Piano Concerto opus 4 (1972)
Duration: 20 minutes.
First performance 7 January 1973 in Tiflis (Georgia).
Variations for piano opus 5 (1973)

Piano Trio opus 6 No. 1 (1970)

Duration: 8 minutes.
Piano Trio opus 6 No. 2 (1974)
Duration: 9 minutes.
Sonata for cello and piano opus 7 (1975)
Lost.
Sonata for flute and piano opus 8 (1976)
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance 13 November 1977 in Moscow.
Sonata for double bass and piano opus 9 (1976)
Duration: 12 minutes.
"Dream", three songs on poems by Langston Hughes for high voice and piano opus 10 (1977)
Duration: 9 minutes.
First performance: 28 September 1997 in Heidelberg (Germany).
Polyphonic Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn opus 11 (1977)
Duration: 10 minutes.
Sonata for harp solo opus 12 (1978)
Duration: 11 minutes.
First performance 14 November 1979 in Moscow.
Chorus (1979)
Lost.
Symphony No. 1 "Ostinato" opus 13 (1979)
Duration: 20 minutes.
First performance 15 December 1980 in Moscow.
Symphony No. 2 "Celebration" opus 14 (1980)
Duration: 40 minutes.
Trio "Two Essays" for clarinet, viola and cello opus 15 (1981)
Duration: 9 minutes.
First performance 23 November 1982 in Moscow.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
Trio "Memory" for harp, cello and double bass opus 16 (1982)
Duration: 13 minutes.
First performance 30 November 1983 in Moscow.
Three Children's Pieces for harp solo (1982)

Trio "Romantic" for clarinet, viola and piano opus 17 (1983)

Duration: 12 minutes.
First performance 24 November 1984 in Moscow.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
Trio "Romantic" for clarinet, cello and piano opus 17A (2001)
Duration: 12 minutes.
First performance 14 August 2001 in Heidelberg (Germany).
Trio "Romantic" for clarinet, violin and piano opus 17B (2006)
Duration: 12 minutes.
Trio "Romantic" for violin, viola and piano opus 17C (2001)
Duration: 12 minutes.
"Pulse", variations for percussion ensemble of six players opus 18 (1983)
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance 21 November 1984 in Moscow.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
"Women, Do Remind You", cantata for soprano, mezzo-soprano and orchestra opus 19 (1983)
Duration: 20 minutes.
First performance: 20 November 1984 in Moscow.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
"Occasion Ensemble", septet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano and percussion opus 20 (1983)
Duration: 14 minutes.
"Spagnelo" for double bass solo opus 21 (1983)
Duration: 4 minutes.
"Movement" for harp solo opus 22 (1983)
Duration: 5 minutes.
Pieces for horn and piano (1983)
Duration: 6 minutes.
"Hirtenhorn" for percussion solo (1983)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 28 September 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Symphony No. 3 "Pianto" for string orchestra, celesta, percussion and organ opus 23 (1984)
Duration: 30 minutes.
First performance 30 November 1986 in Moscow.
Symphony No. 4 "Children" for chamber orchestra opus 24 (1986)
Duration: 25 minutes.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
""Primeval Music", cantata after African Folk Poems for bass and percussion opus 25 (1986)
Duration: 25 minutes.
First performance: 21 November 1989 in Moscow.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
"Fascinating Studies" for piano opus 26 (1986)
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance: 25 February 2001 in Heidelberg.
"The Stolen Letter", children's opera opus 27 (1986)
Duration: 90 minutes.
"Evrika", dialogue for two clarinets and chamber orchestra opus 28 (1987)
Lost.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
"Rythms on the Wire" for four clarinets (1987)
Duration: 5 minutes.
Pieces for cello and piano opus 29 (1988)
Duration: 6 minutes.
Nonet "9" for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, harp, violin, viola, cello and double bass opus 30 (1989)
Duration: 9 minutes.
"Mosaic", string trio opus 31 (1990)
Duration: 12 minutes.
First performance 25 November 1991 in Moscow.
"Shaman Music", concerto for organ and percussion opus 32 (1991)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Commisioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
First performance: 5 November 1995 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Contrasts" for piano opus 33 (1992)
Duration: 15 minutes.
First performance: 1 November 1995 in Heidelberg.
"Snow Storm" for string orchestra and percussion ad libitum opus 34 (1992)
Duration: 25 minutes.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Russia.
"Elves", romances after poems by Goethe for mezzo-soprano with three triangles and piano opus 35 (1992)
Duration: 14 minutes.
Commissioned by Roswitha Sperber (mezzo-soprano). First performance: 28 September 1997 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Vio Voce" for soprano and violin opus 36 (1993)
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance: 6 May 1994 in Amsterdam.
"Gotic" for organ opus 37 (1993)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 18 June 1999 in Stuttgart.
"Splashes" for flute, clarinet and harp opus 38 (1994)
Duration: 10 minutes.
"Wheel" for accordion solo opus 39 (1994)
Duration: 5 minutes.
"Transmigration of Souls" for soprano, baritone and cello opus 40 (1994)
Duration: 8 minutes.
Etude "With Third Not Needed Hand" for harpsichord opus 41 (1994)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 23 May 2003 in Koblenz, Germany
"Sorrow", romance after a poem of Michael Lermontov for soprano and percussion opus 42 (1995)
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance: 24 January 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Hermit" for soprano, string quartet and percussion opus 43A (1995)
Duration: 30 minutes.
Text from "Knaben Wunderhorn".
First performance: 7 June 1996 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble)
"Hermit" for mezzo-soprano, string quartet and percussion opus 43B (1995)
Duration: 30 minutes.
First performance: 23 May 1998 in Weimar, Germany.
Blues for organ opus 44 (1996)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 18 June 1999 in Stuttgart, Germany.
"Dear Heidelberg" for clarinet and organ opus 45A (1996)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance 8 June 1996 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Dear Heidelberg" for organ solo opus 45B (1996)
Duration: 5 minutes.
"Heidelberg" after poems of Hoelderlin for violin and female narrator opus 46A (1996)
Duration: 9 minutes.
First performance: 8 December 1996 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble)
"Heidelberg" after poems of Hoelderlin for flute and female narrator opus 46B (1996)
Duration: 9 minutes.
First performance: 5 April 1997 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble)
"The River Neckar" after Angelika Stein for soprano and percussion opus 47A (1996)
Duration: 30 minutes.
First performance: 25 September 1996 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by GEDOK Heidelberg.
"The River Neckar" after Angelika Stein for mezzo-soprano and percussion opus 47B (1996)
Duration: 30 minutes.
First performance: 23 May 1998 in Weimar, Germany.
Comissioned by GEDOK Heidelberg.
Capriccio for clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion opus 48 (1996)
Duration: 35 minutes.
First performance 23 May 1998 in Weimar, Germany.
Comissioned by "Neuklangfestival" Weimar.
"Processes" after Angelika Stein for organ and female narrator with shell-bells and recorders opus 49 (1996)
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance: 4 December 1996 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble).
"Wind" for piano and percussion opus 50 (1996)
Duration: 20 minutes.
"Dark Light" for cello and piano opus 51 (1997)
Duration: 14 minutes.
First performance: 19 Oktober 1997 in Koblenz, Germany.
Hymn after Heinrich Heine for organ and female narrator with Tam-tam and fetters opus 52 (1997)
Duration: 10 minutes.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble).
"Star Song" after Heinrich Heines "Swan Song" for piano, guitar and female narrator with castagnettes opus 53 (1997)
Duration: 15 minutes.
First performance: 22 November 1997 in Dilsberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble)
"I Cried" after a poem of Heinrich Heine for chorus and orchestra opus 54 (1997)
Duration: 20 minutes.
First performance: 15 May in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Love" after Heinrich Heine for soprano, percussion and piano opus 55 (1997)
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: 22 September 1997 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Comissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble).
"Tshastushki" after Russian folk texts for soprano, piano and two mouthorgans opus 56 (1997)
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: 12 January 1998 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Bingen", nonet after Hildegard von Bingen and the bible for recorders, saxophone, percussion, soprano, mezzo-soprano, female narrator, violin, cello and organ opus 57 (1997)
Duration: 40 minutes.
First performance: 18 April 1998 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble)>
"Inspire - Expire", ragtime for violin and piano opus 58 (1998)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 9 February 1999 in Berlin, Germany.
Commissioned by Zonta - Clubs, Heidelberg, Germany.
"Expire", ragtime for viola and piano opus 58A (1998)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 9 November 2003 in Mannheim, Germany.
Commissioned by Ursula Trede – Boether.
"Inspire - Expire", ragtime for violin, cello and piano opus 58B (1998)
Transcription of opus 58A.
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 10 March 1999 in Berlin, Germany.
"Inspire - Expire", ragtime for two cellos, piano and drums opus 58C (2002)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 20 June 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"O Jerusalem" after Hildegard von Bingen for violin, guitar and narrator opus 59 (1998)
Duration: 5 minutes.
"Site of the Heart" for cello solo opus 60A (1998)
Duration: 12 minutes.
First performance: 25 February 2001 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Immortal 2" after Dagmar Schumann for violin and female narrator with percussion opus 60B (2000)
First performance: 15 June 2001 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Commissioned by Dagmar Schumann.
"In My Dreams" after Else Lasker-Schueler for mezzo-soprano, percussion and piano opus 61 (1998)
Duration: 45 minutes.
First performance: 25 September 2004 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Black Candles Is Burning" after Ossip Mandelstamm for six female singers, mixed chorus, organ and percussion opus 62 (1999)
Duration: 20 minutes.
First performance: 8 October 2000 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble).
"Wind in the Valley of the Neckar" for piano and percussion opus 63 (1999)
Duration: 20 minutes.
First performance: 25 June 1999 in Dilsberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble).
"Spanish" for violin solo opus 64A (2000)
Duration: 10 minutes.
First performance: 25 February 2001 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"My Angel" after Dagmar Schumann for female narrator with percussion and violin opus 64B (2000)
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: 15 June 2001 in Hoefgen, Germany.
"Immortal 1" after Dagmar Schumann for soprano with percussion and violin opus 65 (2000)
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: 15 February 2004 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by Dagmar Schumann.
"A Jewel in a Simple Setting No. 1" for flute and saxophone opus 66A (2000)
Duration: 7,5 minutes.
First performance: 13 March 2000 in Dusseldorg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble).
"A Jewel in a Simple Setting No. 1" for two flutes opus 66B (2000)
Duration: 7,5 minutes.
"A Jewel in a Simple Setting No. 2" for violin and organ opus 67A (2000)
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: 18 March 2001 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ensemble Gegenwelten (Heidelberg Festival Ensemble).
"A Jewel in a Simple Setting No. 2" for violin and piano opus 67B (2000)
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: 21 September 2001 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Am I Light or Earth" after Dagmar Schumann for six female singers and organ opus 68 (2000)
Duration: 6 minutes.
Commissioned by Dagmar Schumann.
Moldavian Suite for violin and piano opus 69 (2000)
Duration: 9 minutes.
First performance: 25 February 2001 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Jason and Medea" for orchestra opus 70 (2000)
Duration: 12 minutes.
First performance 20 July 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Commissioned by the Ton-Art Orchestra of Heidelberg.
"Medea", chamberopera opus 71 (1998-2001)
Duration: 96 minutes.
"Commotion" after Dagmar Schumann for bass and piano opus 72 (2001)
Duration: 10 minutes.
Commissioned by Dagmar Schumann.
Jason and Medea for violin and cello opus 73 (2001)
Duration: 12 minutes.
First performance: 30 August 2001 in Hoefgen, Germany.
"Symphony of the Chair" after Viatsheslav Kuprianov for soprano, violin and two chairs opus 74 (2001)
Duration: 15 minutes.
First performance: 15 February 2004 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Tomography" for organ and percussion opus 75 (2001)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 9 June 2004 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Vi" after Stefan Fricke for high voice and piano with siren opus 76 (2001)
Duration: 5 minutes.
First performance: 28 September 2002 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Fox" op. 77 - fuer Ballastseiten "Kuehe" und 4 Steinschindeln opus 77 (2001)
Duration: 3,5 minutes.
First performance: 9 August 2001 in Hoefgen, Germany.
"The Golden Little Key" for narrator and orchestra opus 78 (2001)
Duration: 45 minutes.
Boogie for flute, drums and piano opus 79A (2001)
First performance: 7 June 2002 in Dilsberg, Germany.
Boogie for piano four hands and siren opus 79B (2001)
First performance: 20 September 2002 in Dilsberg, Germany.
"Medea and Aigeus" for orchestra opus 80 (2002)
First performance in January 2009 in Heidelberg. "I Beg You (Ich Bitte)" opus 81 No. 1 for chorus (2003)
Text by Dagmar Schumann.
"I Beg You (Ich Bitte)" opus 81A for soprano and piano (2003)
Text by Dagmar Schumann.
First performance: 28 September 2003 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Madonna" for organ solo opus 81 (2003)
First performance: 15 February 2004 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Madonna" for cembalo solo opus 81 No. 2 (2003)

"Pieta" for piano four hands opus 81B (2003)

Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: 13 June 2004 in Dilsberg, Germany.
Commission of Kulturstiftung Rhein–Neckar–Kreis.
"Rock'n'Roll" for piano four hands opus 82 (2003)
First performance: 13 June 2004 in Pieta.
Commission of Kulturstiftung Rhein–Neckar–Kreis.
"Elves" for orchestra opus 83 (2004)
First performance: 12 January 2005.
"Was ist das - leben? (What's Life?)" for orchestra and narrator opus 84 (2005)
After texts of Andreas Jungwirth (for children).
"3 O", trio for violin, violoncello and piano opus 85 (2004)
First performance: 19 June 2005.
"Sommerspiele (Summer Plays)" nach Angelika Stein for narrator, percussion and organ opus 86 (2005)
Duration: 20 min.
First performance: 24 September 2006 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Die Teilungen I (Divisions I)" for mezzo-soprano with gong and piano opus 87 (2006)
After a text of Antonia Haefner.
First performance: 25 March 2007 in Heidelberg, Germany.
"Die Teilungen II (Divisions II)" for mezzo-soprano with gong and piano opus 87A (2006)
After a text by Antonia Haefner.
First performance: 25 March 2007 in Heidelberg, Germany.
Two Christmas Songs (2007)
"The Star" and "Our Saver"
"Bauernhof" op. 88 for piano solo for children (2008)
First performance: 24 September 2009 in Heidelberg.
Kleine Sonatine opus 89 for piano solo for children (2008)
First performance: 24 September 2009 in Heidelberg.
Symphony Nr. 5 ("Wellen", Poseidon) for orchestra opus 90 (2009)

Thanks to the composer for additional information.
Her contact data are:
Olga Magidenko
Sperberweg 8
69123 Heidelberg
Tel: 06221-316369
Mobile: 01634620001

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